Zotac Nen and IvyBridge laptop updated and rocking.
Thanks.

Updates fine on Zotac Nen and laptop, thanks.

Thanks for the update and happy new year !
Updated my Zotac Nen steam machine and ivybridge laptop without issue.

Yeah, yeah, present of the day. ^^

Good to see latest mesa !

Thanks.

Originally posted by jvert:

We do want to make it easier to install non-Steam applications on SteamOS and flatpak looks like a promising start in that direction.

That’s definitely cool, even if remote !
Does it work well enough on Jessie or does it mean SteamOS/Stretch is cooking ? :-)

Originally posted by jvert:

We have no plans to ever deliver Steam applications as flatpaks.

I tried… :-D

They could adopt flatpak as the distribution format for games on steam !
Then you get support for different versions of the runtime for cheap and more robustness against underlying OS changes.

Now mesa 17.1 ?
There’s even brand new support for shader cache in the steam client beta. ;-)

Cool, thanks !

(That is on SteamOS, that comes with a passwordless desktop user by default)

Is it really necessary that the user has no password ?

I ask because setting a password to the desktop user (to be able to sudo for example) doesn’t prevent from switching to desktop mode.

Tested upgrade on IvyBridge laptop, Metro Redux is now working thanks to OpenGL 4+. Yay ! :-)

Aaaah, OpenGL 4 (4.2 actually) for Ivy Bridge. Joy ! :D

Originally posted by miro:

hello

Anyway, I do have an issue here. The envelope pops up telling me to restart to update, also I can see 200+ upgradeable packages in aptitude, so it is there - but everytime I do that and restart, steam just starts and no update was performed.
[…]
currently in use, according to syslog with a few line that I think are relevant; seems like the sources can not be fetched, networking is up at least when the system enters big picture mode.

https://pastebin.ca/raw/3828958

As you seem to have desktop and console access available, could you try
to get the latest list of updates from the repositories.
And then
to force the upgrade to happen.

Thanks for quickly pushing beta to stable. :-)

Update sucessful on Zotac Nen and IvyBridge laptop.
I can confirm wifi now works on the Nen in my home setup.

See https://github.com/ValveSoftware/SteamOS/wiki/Opting-into-SteamOS-Beta

It should be sufficient to uninstall the steamos-beta-repo package and wait for stable to catch up.
I haven’t tested though.

Just updated Zotac Nen (from stable) and Intel IvyBridge laptop (from former beta) without problem.

Originally posted by King Dude:

The overhead was mentioned regarding X11, and this overhead is due to network round-trip delay time between client and server.

??
Both incorrect and irrelevant for what I know. There's nothing like network delay when using X clients and server on the same machine (like say SteamOS) and irrelevant because you also have communication between the Wayland clients and the compositor that's different but comparable.

Originally posted by King Dude:

The Wayland protocol is an asynchronous protocol
[...]
achieving improved performance.

Yeah, like do a quick search for XWayland gaming benchmarks and see how much this is true for the 100% of games currently working on X...

Wayland might be interesting at some point but for now Valve are fortunately investing where it matters for gaming : Vulkan, newer mesa versions, newer kernels.